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HN has perhaps the best community on the internet but they’re competing with craigslist for greatest arrogance in site design. There are some QoL changes for which there are no excuses not to have been implemented by now. For one, I have no idea what the fat-fingered do when trying to upvote/downvote.

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I don't know if it's arrogance as much as complacency and every change to the website requiring someone to work with an outdated Lisp dialect and the gross JavaScript/HTML tricks the frontend uses.

In this case it's a design decision, to priorice the discussion of the community over the opinion of the OP. If you watch carefully, small features are added regularly without announcement.

There is an “unvote” button

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